How to read a whole binary file (Nippy) into byte array in Clojure?

Question

I need to convert Nippy data structures stored on disk into something that can be read by Nippy? Nippy uses byte arrays, so I need some way to convert the file into a byte a

Answer 1

Here's how I do it generically with clojure built-ins

(defn slurp-bytes
  "Slurp the bytes from a slurpable thing"
  [x]
  (with-open [out (java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.)]
    (clojure.java.io/copy (clojure.java.io/input-stream x) out)
    (.toByteArray out)))